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snowfall

[snoh-fawl] / ˈsnoʊˌfɔl /


NOUN
snow
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The pair plans to come back to California for the winter: El Niño is expected to produce intense snowfall they’d like to ski, and ocean swells they’d like to surf.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

While it is unlikely the UK will see any snowfall this autumn, it is still too early to say if the winter will be especially cold or snowy.

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

Check out: Tioga Road, which connects the park’s high country to Interstate 395 and the eastern Sierra, closes with the first heavy snowfall, usually in November.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

This produced sustained heavy snowfall across the Queen Mary Land-Wilkes Land region, adding substantial mass to the ice sheet.

From Science Daily Sep. 6, 2026

Everyone from school was there because it was the first big snowfall of the year.

From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy

And probably all the snow: Recent research by Cohen found that polar vortex stretches align with the heaviest and deepest snowfalls.

From Slate Feb. 25, 2026

It has all come during a particularly cold winter, with heavy snowfalls and temperatures around 6 degrees Fahrenheit or lower since early January.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 26, 2026

These layers of ice holding dust, compacted for centuries, perhaps millennia, may be able to tell us about the atmosphere, temperatures and snowfalls deep into the past.

From Barron's Nov. 7, 2025

Temperatures are dropping and the country has already experienced its first snowfalls, but the full force of Ukraine’s famously harsh winter has not yet been felt.

From BBC Nov. 28, 2024

After rain, or when snowfalls thaw, the streets, unnamed, unshaded, unpaved, turn from the thickest dust into the direst mud.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote




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